opal: Media

mineral

Videos

Life in an underground opal-mining town
Overview of opal mining in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Bennymarty/Dreamstime.com; © Johncarnemolla/Dreamstime.com

Images

Carved opal
© Erica and Harold Van Pelt Photographers
opal, raw, from Coober Pedy, Austl.
Raw opal mined in Coober Pedy, S.Aus.
© SATC/Adam Bruzzone
Iridescence
Iridescence in an opal recovered from Opalville Mine, Queensland, Australia.
Photograph by sulla55. Houston Museum of Natural Science, 28.2006
Old Timers Mine, Coober Pedy, Austl.
An underground gallery in the Old Timers Mine, a living history museum of opal mining...
© SATC
opal mining: Coober Pedy, South Australia
Opal mining at Coober Pedy, South Australia.
© SATC/Milton Wordley